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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. All is not rosy, even as to climate, all the time in the land of roses. Frequently the strong winds at the Tijuana track make it unpleasant for spectators and affect the speed of the racers. The promoters of night racing in Montreal had it all soft and easy until Sir Lomer Gouin stepped up and turned out the light. Then good-night, night racing Toronto Star. The- Cuban-American International Horse Slmw, toward which the Cuban government has appropriated the sum of .5,000, will be held in Oriental Park, beginning on Saturday, Febuary 24, 1917. A recent notice in the English Racing Calendar contains an intimation from the stewards of the Jockey Club that racing next year may not be restricted to Newmarket, as was the case this season. The Louisville Jockey Club directors will not regret the increase of the Derby added money to 5,000. The most advantageously expended money that jockey clubs dispose of is that given in purses and stakes. Francis Nelson in Toronto Globe. The crack western three-year-old Sangallo is going along slowly in his preparation at the Tijuana track and it is hardly probable that he will be ready to go to the post until after the first of the year. Reports from New Orleans, regarding the condition of Julius Mayer, who was resently operated on for appendicitis, are encouraging and it is said Mayer will be able to be out in time for the opening of the New Orleans meeting, January 1. At the Belmont Park Racing Clubs meeting in West Australia last month the winner of the Second-class Plate of seventy sovereigns, Lady A. B., was not backed on the totalizator to win, biit she paid seventy-eight pounds for ten shillings to the sole investor on the place totalizator. Mrs. Olga V. Flormau has brought proceedings in the Surrogate Court of New York to compel the immediate payment of 00,000, which she declares to be due from the estate of her father, the late Charles Kohler, who had large racing and breeding establishments in this country and France. As an indication of the heavy going at Fleming-ton on Derby Day times were much slower than usual. The Derby was run in 2:42 J4. or five and one-half seconds slower than Patrobas won the same race last year, and the Maribyrnong Plate in 1:07-74, the slowest time for the race for thirty-nine years. Melbourne, Australia, is said to have been the scene of the greatest gathering in the history of world sport. On Melbourne Cup Day 217,000 persons were present at the race track. Half were in the free field and half paid a pound to get in. This sort of eclipses the 77,000 jam in the Yale Bowl last month. The Parkinsons, father and son, dominated the Irish turf this year. The noted Curragh trainer, J. J., heads the list of winners in the amount brought home by horses from his stable. His son, W. J., has ridden fifty winners in 137 mounts, an average of about thirty-six and one-half per cent. Young Parkison, who is an amateur, rides over hurdles as well as on the flat, and this is the third consecutive year in which he lias headed the j winning list, amateur or professional, in his native land. Irish breeders, owners and trainers have formed an association for the purpose of putting their j needs before the racing authorities, and are point- ing out that there are many matters in which their interests should be given more considcra-1 tion. In Ireland, as well as in England, owners 1 I are not so fortunately situated as in Canada and 1 this country in this respect, and arc subject to a number of charges which do not prevail here, such as booking fees and percentages for collecting jockeys fees, owners stakes and keeping owners accounts. Added money amounts to little or nothing, and they race for their own money to all in-. tents and purposes. The hreeders are jealous of the reputation of horses produced in the Green Isle, I and are asking that it shall be clearly stated on j the certificates of all such horses sold for export that they are bred in Ireland. I It is unusual to hear of a racing club being sued in connection with a judges decision, but this i happened in Western Australia recently. The owner 1 of a horse called Tununclus sued the chairman of i the Boulder Racing Club for a prize of twenty - ; eight pounds and ninety-nine pounds, which he al-1 leged he would have won but for the judge reversing his decision. The plaintiffs case was that at a picnic meeting on August 12 the judge placed Tununclus first and Molka second in a race, but, that after the Jockeys had weighed In, he the judge reversed his decision, placing Molka first. For the defence the judge stated that he made a mistake iu his plaeings, and corrected them when about a half minute had elapsed. Evidence was glyen- that the numbers were altered before the jockevs weighed in, and a verdict was recorded in favor of the defendant, with costs.
